18-Nov-2014, 11:47
(18-Nov-2014, 08:03)ozthepoz Wrote: I'm happy with the way I listen to music (vinyl, CD occasionally, TV, and air streaming). I'm not especially worried about new functionality - I'd prefer the new developments to be improvements in sound quality. A power upgrade would be handy, or maybe a software upgrade to the dsp perhaps...
I am a bit like you and a bit opposite, too.
I listen mainly to CD and LP with some streaming of pop music and some classical rips made years ago when I was travelling a lot and having my music on a portable player was important.
Now I am a grumpy retired old man I find the tedium of trying to get helpfully tagged classical music onto a streaming solution not worth the faff so I have given up on adding any new stuff to my streaming solution.
OTOH I consider the Devialet amplifier to be transparent and loudspeaker load tolerant so I would not expect any sound quality changes of much consequence, personally, unless some colouration transfer functions were added to the DSP. I have a couple of Metric Halo recorders and their software includes loads of reverbs, soft limiters and emulations of valve (tube) amps and microphone preamps, for example.
It would be cool if Devialet calculated the transfer function for a few of the more popular characterful amps and made them available on the configurator like SAM. OTOH I am not sure if they can emulate the effect of the high output impedance most of them have, and which must cause quite a proportion of their characteristic sound.
Anyway an Ongaku or Dartzeel button would be cool, IMHO.
Devialet Original d'Atelier 44 Core, Job Pre/225, Goldmund PH2, Goldmund Reference/T3f /Ortofon A90, Goldmund Mimesis 36+ & Chord Blu, iMac/Air, Lynx Theta, Tune Audio Anima, Goldmund Epilog 1&2, REL Studio. Dialog, Silver Phantoms, Branch stands, copper cables (mainly).
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